Yaworski
Hawkeye
Um, that's just a movie...And, also a work of fiction.
Not that long ago submarines, aeroplanes, and space flight were all fantastic fiction.
I was soundly chastised by the Google Maps girl today
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Not that long ago submarines, aeroplanes, and space flight were all fantastic fiction.
Yep, science fiction. Gee, I remember when folks didn't think man would fly, go into space and land on the moon, cure polio. I could go on, but what was once impossible will one day become common place.
Um, that's just a movie...And, also a work of fiction.
We design and build special purpose machinery where I'm employed.
AI is occasionally used for procedural input for already known procedures and concepts. But otherwise, it knows absolutely nothing other than a collective of information that has been gathered and provided to it by humans.
Could that change at some point in the future? Perhaps...?
However, currently...AI couldn't produce a Slinky on it's own.
I have had Maps take me the wrong place a couple of times. Both times I was going somewhere for work. It really didn't hurt me too bad as I just called the person I was supposed to meet & got it straightened out. I am weird if I am going somewhere for work I haven't been before I give myself extra time in case something goes wrong. Both times I wound up being there when I was supposed to.
I got so mad at Waze one night I still refuse to use it.
I got so mad at Waze one night I still refuse to use it.
There's apparently a new enhanced Alexa that looks a lot like an iPad. One of the commercials on it has Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor in the Marvel movies, as its "star". In the commercial, he considers several ways the Alexa could kill him. I'm thinking yeah, just what I want. An electronic spy machine that has the capability to do me in. I'm not so sure that's the message they want to imply with this. BTW - no version of that is coming into my house.
When I got my first GPS App on my Verizon phone, I named her Lucy. I knew it wouldn't be long before I was saying "Lucy, you got some "splainin' to do!"
It started after the third time of Lucy saying "At the first opportunity, make a legal U-turn."
It started after the third time of Lucy saying "At the first opportunity, make a legal U-turn."
The earlier comment about using your spouses voice got me thinking.
Sure you have your wife in your ear all the time. You get used to it and start telling it to **** off when it annoys you. Then one night you take the wife out to dinner and that new habit kicks in.
Sure you have your wife in your ear all the time. You get used to it and start telling it to **** off when it annoys you. Then one night you take the wife out to dinner and that new habit kicks in.
Kind of on the same lines, do you know why they use a female voice on the machines at self check outs? Because only a woman can nag like that.
What blows is the wokeness of this. If you think about it. No fight back, not even a 'sorry I F@cked up'. But an immediate redirect to 'offense.'
Get the same thing from Alexa when she misinterprets what I say repeatedly.
A GOOD response would be 'sorry I can't please you with what you want....you'll need to be a bit more specific in that my programming can't understand what you want. What can I do to help.'
An OK one might be "I understand your frustration but there are limits to my program can you please rephrase things"
An OK one might be "Sorry I Fu@ked up too ! You weren't clear in your F'n directions and I'm doing the best I can here. So how about you give me a F'n clue to what you want me to do."
Yet they go to the woke "I'm offended" category rather than a decent response.
It's the mind conditioning the left wants to impose on us.
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AMEN! Has never lead me astray, as a GPS device has.
Neon Vernon
Single-Sixer
Does anyone know the name of the lady-voice in Google Maps? I've been calling her Jane, but in light of things I've learned in this thread I don't want to get crossways with her.
I do the same. When driving on I45 to Houston I always use Google Maps. It tells me if police are coming up, or an accident and it reroutes me automatically. Very efficient.
Paul B
Hunter
Probably Lathrop Wells. I wonder, is the Shamrock still open for business????
PJ
Paul B
Hunter
I think I've used the GPS on my phone exactly one time. My wife and I were coming hoe from Spring Texas and when I got to I think it was Van Horne, but don't quote me, my wife complained of being tired. My daughter had arranged a reservation at a motel 6 there in case it was needed. Well, my phone needed charging but no power at the motel. The only power available was at some gas station and liquor store and a McDonalds. They had generators. So no GPS and didn't have a paper map. I used the signs designating turn offs Made it easy even when going through San Antonio during rush hour.
PJ
PJ
I use navigation when I’m going somewhere out of my local area I normally frequent. Couple years ago I decided I needed to go visit relatives in California and I drove all the way there using the route given to me to follow. And then once I got there, I realized all the neat places that I had skipped seeing because I only followed the quickest route. So I took an extra tthree days coming back to go the back roads and through Route 66 and then back through Texas. Seeing things like Billy the Kid’s gravesite. It was much more fun that way.
For our 2025 trip, I had line by line written instructions of the travel path, Son had loaned us his backup GPS device, and I was generally following roads I'd driven before. By the time we reach St Joe (125 miles from home), the GPS was too confused to function, the written directions were lost, and GA's phone was sending us to places I didn't want to go. It didn't get better over the following week but I did finally find the written directions. Unfortunately, GA refused to read them because it made her carsick. Oddly, staring at the phone doesn't have this affect. :oops: o_O:censored:
I will admit that 911 addressing of rural areas has been a great improvement but those 'GPS devices' aren't always up to snuff.
I will admit that 911 addressing of rural areas has been a great improvement but those 'GPS devices' aren't always up to snuff.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
FWIW, I use a Garmin GPS. AFIK, it doesn't report my movements to our overlords.
I use my pocket computer as a phone and a music player.
I do have one game installed. I don't have email set up on it.
I use my pocket computer as a phone and a music player.
I do have one game installed. I don't have email set up on it.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Ya gotta update the software periodically.
The worst GPS experience that I've had was when it took me on a loop about ten miles out of my way. When I got to the destination, I realized that it was about two miles from my starting point and that I'd refereed many games in the close by school. A paper map would have shown me that.
When I was a ref, there were no smart phones and I didn't have a GPS. What I had was a big book of maps of the DC area. After a while, I rarely consulted the map. I could get you to almost any gym in my county from any other gym.
djw54
Single-Sixer
My wife introduced me to the term "B**chin' Betty" for the GPS. I believed she learned that from her time in the Air Force, and how the pilots would refer to some of the audio warnings they would receive in flight.
I use Apple Maps or Waze if I don’t know where I’m going, but I normally preview the route the night before on my iPad so I can see exactly which route they are taking me. I find the bigger picture to be better and I can choose the route I want to take beforehand.
Because it needs humans for the manual labor.
Once humanoid robots are more of a thing....
